Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

[jrhett at netconsonance.com (Jo Rhett)]

On Apr 22, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
> While HTTP remains popular as a way to interact with humans,  
> especially if
> you want to try to do redirects, acknowledge license agreements,  
> etc., FTP
> is the file transfer protocol of choice for basic file transfer

Speak for yourself.   I haven't used FTP to transfer files in 10 years  
now.   About 7 years ago I turned off FTP support for all of our  
webhosting clients, and forced them to use SFTP.   3 left, for a net  
loss of $45/month.   And we stopped having to deal with the massive  
undertaking that supporting FTP properly chrooted and capable of  
dealing with all parts of the multi-mount web platform required.    
We've never looked back.

Ever once in a while I find someone who's offering a file I want only  
via FTP, and I chide them and they fix it ;-)

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness